PP Ed’s Blog: Band Circles/ Cancale/ Northern Meeting, Lochaber, Aboyne

Difficulties over ‘concert’ formation positioning mentioned in Alistair Aitken’s piece yesterday should be easily overcome after a little trial and error. Bass sections are different in the circle set up so there is nothing new there. Going by the photographs I thought the formations at the Ross Bandstand pretty good and must have been much more comfortable for the judges than what they are used. No walking about, balancing of…

Kenmore Games Junior Piping

Perfect conditions to day for this contest in Perthshire. U-12 Piping 1 Archie McNab 2 Annabelle Charlton 3 Wallace Mackie 4 Brodie Barrie U-14 Piping 1 Bobby Allan 2 Joshua Reilly 3 Annabelle Charlton 4 Brodie Barrie 16 and Under Confined to Perthshire 1 Annabelle Charlton 2 Archie McNab 3 Lexy MacDiarmid 21yrs and Under 1 Bobby Allan 2 Brodie Watson-Massey 3 Tommy Young 4 Joshua Reilly 21yrs and Under Jig 1…

MacStig Takes a Look at Grade 2 at the Europeans

Some say he would be confused in a round room looking for the corner….yet more that he thinks a sgian dubh is a pigeon on the piste..all we know is…. It was a scenic drive north to the picture postcard setting of Grant Park, Forres, via the highland highway that is the A9…the road, as you know, has dual carriageways with average speed cameras keeping the boy racers like me in check….

Ceres Games Results (updated)

Beautiful day in Fife and a successful one for the Army’s Ben Duncan (pictured above). Eight pipers competed. The games also saw a visit from television chef Gordon Ramsay and other tv personalities who were filming. Piob 1 Ben Duncan, Lament for MacSwan of Roaig 2 Darach Urquhart, Glengarry’s March 3 Eireann-Ianetta MacKay, Lament for the Viscount of Dundee 4 Craig Martin, Lament for Donald of Laggan March 1 Ben…

Results from Today’s European Pipe Band Championships

Forres hosted its final European Pipe Band Championships today in a sun-drenched Grant Park. It was an outstanding day for Inveraray, the current World Champions, who finally asserted themselves during the 2018 season. All congratulations to P/M Stuart Liddell. The band is pictured above celebrating after the announcement. The full result in Grade 1 was: 1 Inveraray 2 FMM 3 S Power 4 SLoT 5 Fife Pol. 6 Boghall Drumming: Field Marshal In Grade…